The objective of the Coordinating Forum is to provide an opportunity for collaboration and coordination of graduate pathways research across organisations.
There is currently a growing recognition of the potential value and need for panel, cohort and tracer studies in the South African skills planning and skills development space. To this end, work led by the Labour Market Intelligence Partnership (LMIP) provides an opportunity to coordinate and align these initiatives to mutual benefit for research community and policy makers. Currently, policy makers and research communities include:
- A household level panel survey conducted by StatsSA in 2015 for release in 2016
- Plans for a national higher education graduate tracer study led by Universities South Africa
- An array of pilot panel, tracer and database studies conducted by the LMIP, involving researchers at HSRC, UCT, Stellenbosch, UWC, Rhodes and NMMU
- Sectoral level tracer studies of graduates from work based learning programmes, conducted by individual SETAs
- A TVET tracer study conducted by SSICA in partnership with JET
- Cohort studies coordinated by DHET in collaboration with Wits
This forum will provide a collaborative research space to develop national longitudinal panel and tracer studies that create new data on the pathways into and through education and training, and into the labour market.
